On the Eve: A Tale (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On the Eve: A TaleIn comparison with him his companion looked an old man, and no one who observed his position could ever have imagined that he was enjoying himself, and was thoroughly at his ease. He was lying in the most awkward of postures: his head, which was broad at the top, but gradually sharpened towards the chin, sat awkwardly on his long neck: there was an awkward ness in the way he dangled his hands, in his huge body tightly squeezed into a short black surtout, in his long feet and gawky legs, which were exactly like the hind legs of a dragon-fly. And yet with all this he bore about him the signs of an educated man, there was an air of gentlemanliness in his very awkwardness, and his face, though far from handsome, and even somewhat comical, wore the expression of thought and of goodness. His name was Andrew Petrovitch Bersieneff, that of his companion, the light-haired young man, was Paul Jakovlevitch Shoubine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.